Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Elizabeth Quinn received her Master's (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. She started her academic career at Fayetteville State University and was employed in the Department of Criminal Justice there for 11 years. In 2015 she joined the faculty of the Department of Criminal Justice Administration here at MTSU. She has worked in the field as a Corrections Liaison with incarcerated juvenile offenders, as a volunteer sexual assault victim advocate in Wisconsin and North Carolina, and spent four years as a Board member for a rape crisis center in North Carolina. She recently published the 2nd edition of a textbook on Crime Victimization for Carolina Academic Press with co-author Dr. Sara Brightman and has been published in Women & Criminal Justice, Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice, Contemporary Justice Review, ACJS Assessment Forum, and Crime Prevention and Community Safety. Her work can also be found in edited volumes focusing on current issues in victimology, icons in criminal justice, and sexual assault. Her research focuses on treatment of crime victims, policing and community satisfaction, and stress management of first responders. She is specifically interested in the prevalence of repeat victimization and programs to assist repeat victims by both criminal justice and related agencies. She has worked as a grant writer, trainer, and volunteer for two rape crisis centers and is currently providing training to new victim advocates of domestic violence. Her most recent research is focusing on the impact of vicarious trauma on law enforcement officers and victim advocates.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Domestic and Family Violence, Homicide Survivors/Co-victims, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Vicarious Trauma, Workplace Violence

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Formerly incarcerated victims, Rural victims, Urban high crime neighborhood victims, Repeat Victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies